Well it's a question of ego. 2 parts: 1. If GM were to - like you say - "work with Tesla", who would be in charge of what to do, when and how? GM would want

Well it's a question of ego. 2 parts: 1. If GM were to - like you say - "work with Tesla", who would be in charge of what to do, when and how? GM would want GM cronies to do that. It would be like Apple after they fired Steve Jobs 2. Even if TSLA would be in the driver's seat (pun intended) who would be working for whom? TSLA is already as big as GM in terms of market cap, and with better future, but in a TSLA-GM JV GM would want to be "da boss". Things are fine the way they are GM, F, FCAU will either die, consolidate or become irrelevant; and the new TSLA-like companies will be the new "energy and transportation" players. Clayton M. Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is still valid.